skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Signal allow the user to opt-in/opt-out into their policy? Or are they forcing this policy on their users?
Not candidates for a position I'm hiring for, no.

But positions that I'm applying to? I'm senior enough now that if I can't negotiate a paid-travel interview, clearly I either don't care enough and should cross that opportunity off my list, or it's tempting enough that I don't care.
I’ve invested in a good table and chair. I’m now looking to figure out my keyboard and mouse. I’ve not tried the small keyboards because I thought the cramped space may be worse. But maybe that’s wrong? Any specific recommendations for a keyboard or mouse?
That's depressive.
Searching for AWS Resources in the Console Search Bar
>Our Hunter-gatherer ancestors were probably not leaving their tribe behind and moving away.

It is like literally what they did - more than ever after and before.
Regulations to address the ambiguities and gaps in legislation, or to update them within specifically legislated boundaries, happen often in common-law systems too.
Most probably because a large amount of their fan base uses free accounts. So of course it would make them more money if they switched to Apple Music, because they’d start paying.
Me too. I just keep watching the crustea-culting and wondering if I’m actually missing out.
They do exist, but they don’t exist in a vacuum, it’s decades of carbrained policies to get people to believe this is the only way to live.

And the cities that do have good public transportation (by US standards) like NYC are letting it rot, thus convincing people even more this can’t possibly work.

Also, people voting against their own interests is basically America for most of its time. They’ll continue to vote for restrictive zoning and then complain they can’t do shit and live alone and can’t make friends
The same thing existed for micro USB before but Apple could not agree to that or a new standard, so the EU said "USB-C". The law provides for upgrades and mandates compliance with the spec, including PD. If the spec upgrades, the law does so automatically.

This is a good thing.
> Architecture Advantages: Enhanced ray tracing, Shader Execution Reordering, and DLSS 3 technology for improved efficiency.

This jumps right out as written by AI, these features have nothing to do with training LLMs.
I'm not a high earner by any means, but I'll say that I've caught the underconsumption bug. I've always been of the mindset that I need less than I think I do, but I really took it to another level and I've got to say, my life has never been better.

I never buy new clothes (except shoes), all thrift store clothes. My rent is probably a quarter your rent. If you're in SV, more like 10%. I take care of a family of four on a 1200 a month budget. When I was single, it was $600 for just me, that's all expenses.

We have everything, clean clothes, nutritious and delicious food, a clean environment, all the facilities you need, private family space, lots of outdoor space, access to beauty and amenities. And, we have time to explore, we have time to learn, we have resources to experiment. We have time for each other. There is very little pressure to make ends meet, and we live in what we consider to be luxury, not hedonic luxury, we have things most others wish they had. I have the luxury to go camping for two weeks with my family on a whim. I have the luxury to teach them myself.

If I ever become a millionaire, I'll keep doing it. I'll probably own land instead of rent, the dwelling will probably be a little bigger, I'll probably spend more on projects. But I will never buy a new car on payments, a house in the suburbs, I'll never try to get a condo in a city, I'll never eat out every meal, I'll never buy my kids designer clothes because they demand it or out of some sense of shame. I'd probably keep doing the thrift store thing honestly, the clothes I currently have are way better than anything I've ever bought brand new.
That is real concern especially 4090 is not power efficient , as a100 and h100, h200. I live in Reno so it was ok
Consumer cards are a very different ecosystem, and you'll hit different use cases and challenges.

This might pull you down a path towards distilling and quantizing models, for instance.
Wikipedia disagrees even if relatives seems to be the predominant meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism
Well you are in luck because that is exactly what the article is about.

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yes survivorship bias almost certainly plays a little bit, but i also imagine that there is great arbitrage on int'l horse betting markets prior to like 2012
The article and this whole thread is about the fact that the feature is enabled by default without notifying the user that the feature even exists.
fwiw the article seems to describe a pretty mild type of automation to deal with tons of job ads and mundane stuff like cover letters that often get completely ignored by all sides, so why not try to automate that in good faith? didn't find anything about fake or cheating or misrepresenting one's skills in there.
The article discussed this and had an interesting point (and some stats for evidence) - that shooters waiting in the corner create space for driving to the basket.
The real benefit of Adas typing is that it is so easy to utilise often preventing logic errors.
A big drawback is that they erase your data whenever you stop subscribing (playlists, liked songs, etc).
Wonder what people think about this on both or multiple sides of the equation.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-airport-destinat...

So the top destinations out of Dallas are Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austin, Phoenix, Houston, Orlando, Chicago, and New York.

So HSR would potentially be competitive with maybe two of the top 10 destinations when comparing to air travel for DFW. I'm a proponent for the Texas HSR projects, but I don't think it's going to really radically change how most North Texans travel.

Partially because of the above (only 2 of the top 10 flights), but also because while it'll be nice to just take a train instead of driving to Houston, I'm probably going to have to rent a car or do a lot of ride hailing once I get there. Outside of a small section of a lot of these cities downtown areas you practically need a car to get around or be willing to make a lot of sacrifices.

So I'd love to take HSR to visit family in Clear Lake. I could take DART from my home, HSR to Houston, take METRO to the Bay Area Park and Ride, and then...walk several miles with my family's luggage a few miles on maybe paved sidewalks with a few kids under 3. Ride hailing is pretty much out of the question with little kids, good luck on them having adequate child seats available.

But I'll still champion and argue for the Texas HSR projects, even though I might personally not use it a lot. Maybe transit will improve where I want to go. I hope so. And even then I'll still probably take it to watch a Silver Boot series sometime. But there will be others who will be able to leverage it, and that means fewer cars on the road for me for these trips I'm somewhat forced to choose the car.

But I don't like people acting like there's no logical reason for HSR to be the dominant way for people to travel in the US. As we both agree, trips like DFW-NYC don't make much sense taking a train for most travellers.
I wasn't sure if the project in question would be useful.

Interestingly, it looks as if your project would directly apply to the current step of my current project: getting from a Python core in OpenPythonSCAD to wrapping it in OpenSCAD code --- if there was enough code to it to make automation make sense, and if the whole tool stack was stable enough for that to make sense.

Mostly I was researching this for:

https://github.com/IndiePython/myappmaker-sdd
Every few years I try a mech keyboard, but I always come back to the Magic Keyboard. It's just way more comfortable, quiet, and I feel like my fingers are more nimble and less strained when I use it.
Unpopular opinion: use AWS for domain stuff. They're not more expensive than other registrars or DNS services and are very, very reliable/consistent.
It's negligible. Pick a random different country if you're co nvinced Denmark is an outlier. Compare vs. their jobs in the US. Now compare that to per-country revenue. Quite simply, the % profit margin per country, looking at their expenditures made in each country (incl. salaries paid in that country) vs their revenues there.

And then compare it to "what if Google wouldn't operate at all in Denmark", how much jobs that would create.

The great news is this isn't a hypothetical that can be waved away with "we don't know", because we have a golden example in South Korea, where the 10+ year delay that Google had in gaining market share has resulted in tens of thousands of local jobs that otherwise wouldn't exist.

Could every country have its own Google a la South Korea? Maybe not. But plenty could.
Because the article was clearly co-authored by AI
AI Agents versus Routers
I don't think you understand what I said. Instead of nominally inflation which is gamed, use total wages as a percentage of GDP.
Why is AI so bad at elementary mathematics?
Americans (and yea Canada is basically America) love to point out their vast empty plains.

Truth is that there are millions living in areas which rail makes sense but it doesn’t happen because they don’t want it.
There are a lot of laws and not all of them get updated, as regulatory bodies only have so much time, attention, and political capital. The EU's cookie law still requires a banner if your site uses a cookie to store something like preferred language or default location (even if it's not tied to a specific identity), as those aren't considered "strictly necessary" cookies. GDPR's right to be forgotten hasn't been updated to stop abuse by people who want to hide their past crimes or controversial behavior. The EU's laws on self-driving vehicles still restrict maximum lateral acceleration and lane change behavior, forcing vehicle manufacturers to gimp their software in the EU.

The new USB-C law could be improved significantly if it was a tax instead of a mandate. There is a dollar value associated with the cost of recycling proprietary chargers. Taxing that would be a source of revenue for the EU and allow other chargers for purposes that we can't predict today. The current law is purely a cost center for both governments and manufacturers. And since everyone agrees it will need to be updated at some point, it's the law equivalent of tech debt.

I'm surprised at the responses I've gotten considering how I didn't say I was against this law. I just said I'm not sure if it's a good idea in the long term. And so far, the replies haven't engaged with most of my points. The EU's mandate helps big companies at the expense of small ones, does nothing to discourage electronic waste unrelated to chargers, and makes it harder to switch to whatever will come after USB-C. Yes it's possible for the EU to change the law, but considering they've started with a flawed law and they haven't updated quite a few other laws, I would bet against this law getting updated promptly.
This is a great build, thanks for sharing your learnings.

The best build I have seen so far had 6x4090's. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C548PLVwjHA

Specifications
- GPU Accelerator - 6 x 24GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- Processor - Intel Xeon W7-3465X, 28C/56T, 2.5GHz - 4.8GHz
- Memory - 256GB (8x32GB) DDR5 ECC 4800MHz
- System Drive - 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD
- Storage Drive - 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD
- Operating System - Ubuntu 20.04

An interesting choice to go with 256GB of DDR5 ECC; if spending so much on the 6x4090's, might as well try to hit 1 TB of RAM as well.

The cost of this... not even sure. Astronomical.
That's why I said they tried nothing and are out of ideas.
Maybe your threat model can tolerate an "oopsie woopsie". Politically exposed persons probably cannot.
Thanks!

Since it also includes vbrun300.dll I suspect this is a bit too old to run on a current system.
Kobo still has you covered if you want physical buttons and USB-C, at least.
Has this been properly analyzed?
Yes, that is the entire point of why something like that is a good filter. It is stupendously simple and trivial to demonstrate live in code. The REPL of the browser console even helps with suggestions. Yet, 95% of people writing JavaScript would rather commit seppuku than try it live during an interview.
You do not need a banner, you need informed consent. I'm sure there are other ways of getting consent other than a half screen pop-up with a big red accept button on first visit, but they probably won't get 70% "opt in" rate.
> The average smartphone is probably doing a hundred things you didn’t knowingly consent to every second.

You've succinctly identified a (maybe the) huge problem in the computing world today. Computers should not do anything without the user's command/consent. This seems like a hopeless and unachievable ideal only because of how far we've already strayed from the light.

Even Linux, supposedly the last bastion of user control... it's a mess. Do a fresh install and type ps ax at a shell. You'll see dozens of processes in the background doing god knows what. I didn't consent to any of this! The distribution's maintainer simply decided on my behalf that I want the computer to be running all these processes. This is totally normalized!

I don't expect my computer to ask for consent again and again for every byte sent over the network, but I do expect it to obtain my consent before generally accessing the network and sending bytes over the network.
But money still belongs to old folks so they need to attract them to get money to pay large prizes.
> if you want features that require larger-than-disk datasets, or frequently changing content, you need tools like this.

Well I want them to fuck off.

Hidden in your commentary here is the fact that the vector representation of the image is _the contents of the image_. It very well may be that they cannot reverse the exact image. But it’s still a representation of the image that has to be good for something. Without being too familiar I would be willing to hazard a guess that this could include textual labels and classifications of what is in the image.

I don’t give a shit how good your internal controls are. I don’t have anything particularly interesting to hide. I still do not want you taking my pictures.
Nothing special or too sophisticated. On the one hand I use Just (a command runner) to standardize specific build and test commands that call cargo with various flags. Here is a simple example from one of my repos: https://github.com/deepmesa/deepmesa-rs/blob/mainline/justfi...

Then I have a bunch of elisp code that calls just and / or generates boilerplate code right in the buffer - M-x new-macro or M-x run-test (asks for a test to run) etc. I keep writing more elisp as I go along and add specific key bindings to specific things and now its too hard to move away from it all.
It’s still beta though and often has breaking changes that can require updating the server software in sync with the mobile app versions.
TBH, wall warts with voltage selector and 10+ detachable types of barrel connectors predate corporate enshittification, which is probably what makes PD variant possible.
The risks are not even comparable, IMO. I would rather take these conveniences because I don't think anyone would care to use that information against me if it was leaked. But many people would gladly use a credit card with PIN written on it.
Being in spiraling deflation while the rest of the world suffers from inflation is a big sign of being broke.

Having debt to GDP ratio of 310% and local governments being unable to pay out salaries for many months is a big sign of being broke. (google or chatgpt the salary news, they are everywhere)

Consumer spending dropping 20% y/y in November in Beijing and Shanghai is a sign of being broke.

52,000 EV-related companies shut down in China in 2023 and an increase of 90% on the year before, where most EV companies were the targets of government subsidies, is a sign of being broke.

30% drop in revenues from land sales in 2024, which the local government derive most of its revenue on, is a sign of being broke.

China is not self sufficient; it imports 80% of consumed soybeans and other food products, and 90% of semiconductor equipments. Nor is it even remotely at the same level as Japan when Japan entered the lost decades. 600M Chinese citizens earned less than $100/month as of 2020. Recently, a scholar reported 900M Chinese citizens earned less than $400/month.
I agree to an extent, I think the term lost the original meaning.

My main complaint with the state of politics is too little thoughts and reflection. I think cable news, talk radio, and social media are the root cause.

Reading a daily newspaper or viewing the nightly news gives you a full day to think things over. We are more driven by emotion as a result of never having time to digest and reflect.
If you ran high speed rail between the two most populated cities in the US (NYC and LA), it'd be a 14 hour journey. And there's not that many conveniently placed major cities along the way where it even makes sense to add more than a few stops.

I know we have a lot of rail enthusiasts here, but the average person tends not to like being stuck in a tube for 14 hours...even if that tube is substantially nicer and more roomy than an airplane.

Let's not even talk about the cost of constructing that route.
It’s a shame they removed the night train too. I took it a few years ago, it was convenient.
Start every interview asking the candidate how many rs are in strawberry.
If it’s remote, sometimes they’ll pay someone else to do the work and pocket the difference. And/or the job may just be a ruse to get credentials in the org because it’s an espionage target or to use as a launch point to go after an espionage target.
I do technical hiring for remote senior Java roles. I have not noticed a fake applicant problem. Can you share more about it?

I see plenty of people with poor technical skills claiming to be senior. They seem to be real enough though.
Oh word. Thanks for sharing that. The cost of procedures is also usually much lower, regardless of whether you have insurance.
whats the 'feature' in the app that requires sending a hash off device?
What aspects of it spark your curiosity and peak your intellectual interest?
I think only the top one of those was actually a billion. Sum of payments is poor financial math, and I really wish news agencies would grow some standards and not use them in the headlines.
That's only if your model is too big for a single GPU and you're not batching.
> I don't want anything sent from MY device without my consent

Then don’t run someone else’s software on your device. It’s not your software, you are merely a licensee. Don’t delude yourself that you are morally entitled to absolute control over it.

The only way to have absolute control over software is with an RMS style obsession with Free software.
Ha! I was in a hurry and misread this as the 4.0 release notes.
Memorizing openings is a waste of time unless/until you have a shot at good enough to make a living playing chess - about 1000 people and most of them live in poor countries where cost of living means they don't need to earn much to live.

learn your tactics and end games instead.
Hi Victor!

I love this. I've been playing around with drawing-to-animation techniques for a long time (check out this playlist of videos from my lab at CMU from 9 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv0qX7N2sJw&list=PLLhv4FQp7z...).

I gave your system a try and it's wonderful. The quality of animations are very different than what you get from rigged rag-dolls.

There are pros and cons to these approaches; the nice thing about masking/cropping/rigging (as our old "Dranimate" system did and Meta's "Animated Drawings" does) is that you prepare once, and then you can animate as many times in as many different ways as you want; you can drive it with mocap data; or with real-time inputs as with the videos of Dranimate above). The bad thing is that the first time preparation takes time.

I can see a lot of magic emerging from the combination of the two. I have recently gotten deep into this again (becauase now we have two little ones that are drawing all the time, and we started a Preschool in coastal norcal so kids are all around and this sort of magic really works on them, IRL).

I would love to connect with you sometime if you are up for chatting. Maybe there is a there there.
Yes!

His power supplies are 2x1500 Watt. That puts it at 3KW max which is more than a 20A circuit can provide (2400W).

The standard outlet is typically rated at 15 amps or 1800W. And the 15A breaker is on one circuit. You can get 20A circuits but they need to be wired for it, and replacing the breaker won't cut it.

Assuming his GPU is ~450W (his number) and power supplies are 80% efficient, well that means he's pulling close to ~2400 watts which is super close to the limit of a 20A circuit.

4 * 450 / 0.80 efficiency = 2250W.

That doesn't include the power consumed by the CPU or mother board or other things on that circuit. But a 170W CPU would easily push this over 2400W provided by a 20A circuit.
I applaud you doing the math! Proves you aren’t an LLM :-D
If "wearing jeans is not okay for someone playing chess" is a principle, it's a pretty stupid one. Being consistent about enforcing dumb rules is not a virtue when the alternative is not to have dumb rules in the first place
What Europe does is to educate talent, then that talent goes to America and works hard. Then their inventions come to Europe to get standardized. Meanwhile, Europe is making good money by investing in America, without the mess of being an experimental zone.

Notice how there are barely any names like John or Henry on those research papers or patents. It’s even a hot topic lately, acknowledged by the tech titans. As they say, Americans don’t do much and even if the legal entity is in the US, the capital and the talent is actually from Europe, China and India.

Unfortunately, it appears that with the rise of Maga Europe will eventually have to provide its talent a place to experiment things but the techies are fighting hard to prevent that.
That can't be the explanation. Batteries use fewer watts as they get close to full.
Responses like this tickle me because they make clear there’s a batch of human beings who have just a profoundly different experience with LLMs than I do.

I see these things and think, this is incredible, machines seem to be approximating or emulating conscious thought. There must be so much we can learn about ourselves, and so much they can do.

You see the same thing and say meh, useless pattern matching, what’s the point, spend the money elsewhere.

I wonder why we have this different perspective? I’ve seen these two reactions again and again—I suspect they evince two different worldviews, but I don’t know what the correlates are. I don’t think it’s techno optimism/pessimism, because I’m profoundly worried about what happens to us. It’s not purely an age thing—I’m not young. I see it on here all the time so I don’t think it’s field of work. So what is it, I wonder?
> Well, people that want to half-watch TV deserve stuff made for them too.

The Muzak-ification of film?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak
I have been using Perplexity 95% of the time this past year.
Another theory is that whistleblowers are under a lot of stress. Pre-existing emotional issues would be exacerbated, sometimes leading to suicide.
Agreed. It would also alleviate the maintenance issue as Ada was designed to reduce software costs. Realistically the obly way this will have any chance is if a few developers were funded full time to work on it. There seemed to be a few full time devs pushing Rust support and some drivers before it was taken seriously. Honestly Ada is the best language that I have seen for drivers and for network stacks or for registers received as bytes. Linux is missing out.
short people enjoy playing basketball. They will never go pro but they don't care.